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08-06-2014, 07:43 PM | #751 |
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Re: worst red light debate, again!
I have done this since 1960, and the lower class guys have complained about getting the short end of the stick for something or other as long as I have raced. When we had flagmen, it was 25' per class spot was not enough for the lower class cars, there has always been something.
I'm a slow car here in Div 4 SS, I always leave first. We are running over with 8 second hood scoop cars around here. If I go red, I know screwed up. I don't care what the other guy does. As I have said before, many guys don't just sit there on the 2 step after the slower car goes red. Why would they? If I'm spotting a slower car, I'm not going to wait to leave if he goes red. Those guys going red when you do does not mean they would have gone red if you had not. They aren't going to write new software to change a rule for a few unhappy guys. Most of us live with the rules we have. Knew what they were before we started. Have you lost a lot of races that way? Were they long or short spots?
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08-06-2014, 09:21 PM | #752 | |
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08-07-2014, 12:24 PM | #753 | |
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I know this scenario does not affect us but think about a crosstalk race where both drivers leave off the same bulb, why on earth would this not be worst red light? Did the slow car's red distract the fast car's delay box? Faster drivers actually set up a little more conservative on the delay box to take advantage of this. |
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08-07-2014, 01:57 PM | #754 | |
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Extending the divider couldn't cost that much. Be an easy cure. I always leave first, but never worried about it. Don't remember ever having a double red light round.
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